Dopants Control Electron-Hole Recombination at Perovskite-TiO2 Interfaces: Ab Initio Time-Domain Study

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 11143-11155

  Long, Run ^a,b   Prezhdo, Oleg V ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dopants; electron hole recombination; nonadiabatic molecular dynamics; organohalide perovskites; time domain density functional theory; TiO2

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); BROMINE; CHLORINE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HOLE TRAPS; LEAD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PEROVSKITE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR CELLS; TIN; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; ELECTRON-VIBRATIONAL COUPLING; ELECTRONIC SUBSYSTEMS; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; NONADIABATIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; TIME DOMAIN; TIO;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84948421831     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05843     Document Type: Article

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